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  1. A poem by the Italian Renaissance writer
  2. Ariosto, published 1532 as a sequel to
  3. Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato 1441-94. The
  4. poem describes the unrequited love of Orlando
  5. for Angelica, set against the war between
  6. Saracens (Arabs) and Christians during
  7. Charlemagne's reign. It influenced
  8. Shakespeare, Byron, and Milton, and is
  9. considered to be the greatest poem of the
  10. Italian Renaissance.
  11.